[Kanzaki]

It's the first album she's ever released, on which not a single track has received a 5-star rating in my Itunes library. I think it's nor good or bad, with not one track that I simply can't listen to, but neither anything I can't stop listening to. I was pleasantly surprised, however, by how upbeat the album actually is - the tracks may all have a ballad-y feel to them, but quite a few of the songs are upbeat and in fact, very catchy. Catchy doesn't neccassarily equal good, but there are a few tracks I feel stand out: Missing and snowy kiss, and also Bye-bye Darling (that really has a feel to it of old school, beat-up Ayu to it)

I far from dislike it, but it's nowhere near on my top Ayu albums either. It would have been a solid release, had not many of these songs been previously released on a mini-album. 5/10.